SAP Mobile Platform provides an integrated platform solution to extend your enterprise applications to mobile workers in the field.
SAP Mobile Platform acts as the hub that
connects enterprise information systems and data sources to mobile devices. Features for
mobile application development, deployment, security, and ongoing mobile device and
mobile application management (MDM/MAM) provide a complete end-to-end solution. The
platform is made up of:
- SAP Mobile SDK – The platform development tool set used to build mobile
applications that meet your mobility needs.
- SAP Mobile WorkSpace provides an Eclipse-based, integrated development for modeling, designing, and deploying mobile applications.
- The Agentry Editor provides an Eclipse-based, integrated development environment for developing Agentry applications.
- Libraries are also provided to support building Object API, HTML5/JS Hybrid, and OData SDK mobile applications.
- SAP Mobile Platform
Runtime – The deployment and management architecture and services used
to run and manage mobile applications. SAP Mobile Server is an engine that provides server-side runtime
services, such as security, caching, and synchronization, to mobile
applications and enables integration with the EIS.
- SAP Control Center, a key component of Runtime, is the web-based console that provides platform management and control, which includes mobile device and mobile application monitoring and management..
This solution allows you to:
- Connect – During development and deployment, connect to your heterogeneous data sources and back-end enterprise systems.
- Create – Use the development tools included with the SAP Mobile SDK to build and test mobile applications that meet your mobility needs.
- Control – Deploy to and manage SAP Mobile Platform Runtime, including the runtime environment, end-to-end security, and device applications.
- Consume – Mobile applications install to devices allowing device users to work online and offline. Enterprise data is accessed from a variety of mobile devices.
The chapters in Fundamentals guide you through details of this mobility platform.